diff --git a/haystack/retriever/elasticsearch.py b/haystack/retriever/elasticsearch.py
index 69cfd7035..284b678cb 100644
--- a/haystack/retriever/elasticsearch.py
+++ b/haystack/retriever/elasticsearch.py
@@ -44,13 +44,14 @@ class ElasticsearchRetriever(BaseRetriever):
         logger.info(f"Got {len(paragraphs)} candidates from retriever: {meta_data}")
         return paragraphs, meta_data
 
-    def create_embedding(self, text):
+    def create_embedding(self, text,extraction_strategy="reduce_mean", extraction_layer=-1):
         if self.model_format == "farm":
-            res = self.embedding_model.extract_vectors(dicts=[{"text": text}], extraction_strategy="reduce_mean", extraction_layer=-1)
+            res = self.embedding_model.extract_vectors(dicts=[{"text": text}],
+                                                       extraction_strategy=extraction_strategy,
+                                                       extraction_layer=extraction_layer)
             emb = list(res[0]["vec"])
         elif self.model_format == "sentence_transformers":
             # text is single string, sentence-transformers needs a list of strings
             res = self.embedding_model.encode([text]) # get back list of numpy embedding vectors
             emb = res[0].tolist()
-        return emb
-
+        return emb
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